Yarbrough: Twin Pines indifferent to Okefenokee backlash

As of this writing, the opportunity has passed to express your opinion to Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division about its decision to issue draft permits for Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals to strip-mine the 582 acres of wetlands it owns adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp.

Yarbrough: Sweet talk about Vidalia onions

Let’s face it. We’re a blessed people. Not only do we have the oldest state-chartered university in the nation with two recent National Football Championships, 27 Rhodes Scholars (but who’s counting?

Yarbrough: Bob Shaw, a man who made us better

My boss and mentor at Southern Bell, Jasper Dorsey, taught me a lot about the business world.He also taught me a lot about the world beyond business. One of his precepts was that we must leave this a better world than we found it. Otherwise, we have just taken up time and space and wasted a life.

Yarbrough: Becoming a Bulldog – forever

A lot is going on at my alma mater, the University of Georgia. Not all the news has been good.

Yarbrough: Do politicians even care about the Okefenokee Swamp?

Between the time I write, and you read this, conditions can change.Particularly in politics.

Yarbrough: A reader’s reminder of the goodness within us

I get a number of suggestions from readers regarding topics for a column. For that, I am grateful. I also get suggestions from some readers about what I can do with the column and where I can go while placing it where they suggest.That, I will leave to your imagination.

Yarbrough: Serious monkey business in Bainbridge

Today, dear readers, let us turn our attention to some serious monkey business currently taking place in the Great State of Georgia. And, no, I’m not talking about stolen elections and fake electors. I’m talking about monkeys.Real, live monkeys.

Yarbrough: Some random thoughts on random subjects

How’s this for unbridled hypocrisy? Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Donald Trump and others for election fraud, said when running for the job as Fulton County district attorney that she would not date any of her subordinates.

Yarbrough: Reflecting on the loss of three heroes

Dear, Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia, and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia, I did not know you personally and the likelihood is that our paths might never have crossed. That does not matter.

Yarbrough: Fulton County DA finds herself in ‘fine mess’

When something went awry in one of their old slapstick movies, Oliver Hardy would declare to the hapless Stan Laurel, “This is a fine mess you’ve gotten us into.